Police ‘could and should have’ stopped him: key points from Wayne Couzens report

Former firearms officer's history of alleged sexual offending dated back to 1995, 347-page report finds

Wayne Couzens should never have been a police officer and three separate forces could and should have" stopped him, a damning report by Lady Elish Angiolini has found.

The 51-year-old former firearms officer's history of alleged sexual offending and predilection for violent and extreme pornography dated back to 1995, it said. Couzens allegedly sexually assaulted a child and attempted to kidnap a woman at knife-point in the years before he abducted, raped and murdered Sarah Everard on 3 March 2021.